a hawtin hooded pullover? ;) well, no, but rich is a friend and i've helped tear down his rig more than once.

i remember talking to him about that PS2 event & he sent me some video. whole damn place was jumping up and down! mid-day and it really looked like it was going OFF.

i can't say he's never used traktor but i can say that, in general, he doesn't. i'd be surprised if he ever had in a live situation. francois K does sometimes. wouldn't make sense tho, cuz pitch correction is a one-button-press affair in traktor. you can tap tempo but that's normally done way ahead of time, when you're setting up the files. anyway whatever he was tapping had to be tied to ableton. or you were hearing timing corrections on the delay line, as it related to the decks.